Cal Henderson
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Cal Henderson (Full name Callum James Henderson-Begg) (born January 17, 1981) is a British computer programmer and author based in San Francisco.
He's best known for co-owning and developing the online creative community B3ta[1] with Denise Wilton and Rob Manuel, being the chief software architect for the photo-sharing application Flickr[2] (originally working for Ludicorp[3] and then Yahoo) and writing the book Building Scalable Web Sites[4] for O'Reilly Media. He's also worked for emap[5] and is responsible for writing City Creator[6][7] among many other websites, services and desktop applications.
Cal Henderson is color-blind and has developed software to replicate the colour blind experience for web usability work[8].
[edit] External links
- Cal maintains a weblog and online community at http://www.iamcal.com
- b3ta
- Flickr
- Articles by Cal Henderson
[edit] References
- ^ Interview with B3ta co-founder Rob Manuel http://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/features/2003/08/rob_manuel/rob_manuel.shtml
- ^ About Flickr http://flickr.com/about/
- ^ Ludicorp staff http://ludicorp.com/the_team.php
- ^ O'Reilly catalog - Building Scalable Web Sites http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/web2apps/
- ^ emap press release http://www.emapadvertising.com/press_centre/press_detail.asp?ID=229
- ^ Yahoo picks - September 16, 2003 http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20030916.html
- ^ About City Creator http://www.citycreator.com/faq.city
- ^ Penn State - Creating Accessible Web Sites http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/accessibility/color.html
